fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
town; city; municipal; urban
inhabitant; resident; citizen; population
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
to see without obstruction; to see through; to forecast; to predict; to anticipate
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
descendant; posterity; offspring
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice
one's post; place of work; workplace
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles
fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
rice bowl; tea cup; teacup
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
poor person; pauper; the poor; the indigent
wheat; barley; oat (oats)
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to be frowned on; to invite frowns of disapproval; to displease (people); to disgust
prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
bread-centered diet (as opposed to rice)
beautification; glorification
to succeed; to bear fruit
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
one meal; one meal (a day)
180.39 millilitres; 180.39 milliliters; 0.3306 square metres; 0.3306 square meters; one-tenth of the way (from the foot of a mountain to the top)
ramen; Chinese-style noodles
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); reception and protection